Actinobacteria and Myxobacteria Important Resources for Novel Antibiotics

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: actinomycetes; antibiotic biosynthesis; antimicrobial; antioxidant; antivirals; Biology, life sciences; cytotoxicity; diversity; Ebola; enzyme inhibition; GC-MS; hepatitis viruses; HiTES; HIV; marine actinobacteria; Mathematics and Science; myxobacteria; new antibiotics; polyketide synthases (PKSs); polyketides; pyrrolopyrazines; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Research and information: general; secondary metabolite; secondary metabolites; silent biosynthetic pathways; Streptomyces; Streptomyces sp; translation inhibitors; uncultured; γ-butyrolactones

Bacterial infections cause millions of deaths globally, particularly in children and the elderly, and four of the 10 leading causes of death are infectious diseases in low- and middle-income countries. The continuous use of antibiotics has resulted in multi-resistant bacterial strains all over the w...